After the weekend

Well, we had a good BBQ week­end. I got hooked on Mon­day when Space ran all the episodes of Fire­fly all in a row. I watched about four of them, all told, through­out the day.

There was much drink­ing on Sun­day, and some unhap­py fall­out on Mon­day morn­ing, but the less said about that the better.


School start­ed today. My wife was a lit­tle har­ried at work last night, work­ing as she does in the shoe sec­tion at the local iter­a­tion of the largest retail con­glom­er­ate on the plan­et. Shoes and sta­tionery were not depart­ments I’d’ve want­ed to work yes­ter­day. But she sur­vived, and even escaped from the store rel­a­tive­ly close to on time.

And at the uni­ver­si­ty where I work, well, they were every­where. Every year, the first day of class­es is a lit­tle over­whelm­ing. In the spring, when class­es end, they kind of trick­le away, by ones and twos and dozens, depend­ing on when they have their last exams, etc. But in the fall, boom, one day they’re all there. The uni­ver­si­ty goes from a pop­u­la­tion of about 400ish to 3500 in the space of a day.

I need to lie down.

But I won’t, because judo starts tonight. Won­der how many’ll show up?

[Lat­er] Answer: sev­en. Me, two black­belts, three brand-new guys, and a gent who got his black belt in Japan, from the Kodokan, but who did­n’t have all his doc­u­men­ta­tion, so that’s got to be sort­ed out…